TONY GALLOTTO: School board races are about to get more political

4:05 PM,
Sep. 21, 2012

Written by

TONY GALLOTTO
| For the Courier-Post

This Election Day - for the first time since 1903 - voters in most New Jersey's school districts will elect local board of education members on the same Nov. 6 ballot as candidates for municipal, county, state and federal offices, including the president.

Ninety-percent of all New Jersey school districts - or 468 districts - hastened to switch elections from April to November after the state approved enabling legislation. Districts believe this change will boost voter-participation in school races where the average turnout was a dismal 15 percent for more than a decade.